Wafiq al-Samarrai

Wafiq al-Samarrai (1 July 1947-) was Director of the General Military Intelligence of Ba'athist Iraq in 1992 under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Wafiq al-Samarrai was born on 1 July 1947 in Samarra, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Bedouin. al-Samarrai served in the General Military Intelligence during the Iraq War and in the al-Anfal Campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan, but since 1982 he was secretly a spy for Iran and Jalal Talabani. In 1994 he defected to the Kurds when he feared that he was about to be arrested by Saddam Hussein, and he moved to London after the Kurdish uprisings were crushed. In 2005, he became a security adviser to Talabani when he became President of Iraq and returned to Iraq, living in Baghdad.